“Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.”

American journalist and author

Timothy Robert Noah is an American journalist and author, and a staff writer at The New Republic. He has also worked as labor policy editor for Politico, a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, a senior editor at The New Republic, and a senior writer at Slate. At The New Republic, he wrote the biweekly "TRB From Washington" column, and at Slate he wrote the "Chatterbox" column for a decade. In 2012, he published The Great Divergence, a book about income inequality in the United States.